Extremely rare Golden Tiger-A golden tiger, golden tabby tiger or strawberry tiger is one with an extremely rare color variation caused by a recessive gene that is currently only found in captive tigers. Like the white tiger it is a color form, not a separate species, like the golden tiger, this is the wide band gene; while the white tiger is due to the color inhibitor (chinchilla) gene. Believed to be fewer than 12 of these rare golden tigers in the world, but many more carriers of the gene.